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THE origin, migration, and accumulation of JL petroleum: three outstanding episodes (in proper sequence) in a natural history even now imperfectly understood. Every text-book on oil geology gives a chapter to each; every author reiterates the same arguments which have held sway since the enlightened days of Redwood, Engler-Hofer, and their contemporaries. ‘Origin’, as such, has a literature of its own, much of it unconvincing to a degree. Migration of petroleum is a subject still in a state of flux and kept so by the contradictory results of experiment and conflicting tenets of mode/n philosophy. ‘Accumulation’ is the oil-v pool itself, how and why it came to be formed, what its relationship to reservoir-rock really proves to be, what its disposition anent structure actually signifies. In the last case we are on more solid ground because the unravelling of subsurface conditions of so many oil fields to such a point of accurate detail has provided us with tangible evidence of the raison d'ætre of many a big pool.
Structure of Typical American Oil Fields: a Symposium on the Relation of Oil Accumulation to Structure.
Forty Special Papers including a Critical Summary, in part from the Program of the Twelfth Annual Convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists at Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 24, 25 and 26, 1927. Vol. 2, 1929. Pp. xxiii + 870 + 4 plates. (Tulsa, Okla.: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists; London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1929.) 27s. net.
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M., H. Structure of Typical American Oil Fields: a Symposium on the Relation of Oil Accumulation to Structure . Nature 126, 949 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126949a0
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